Re: Startup strangeness

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2009.09.11 20:11, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> On 06/12/2009 04:52:33 PM Fri, Jack Ostroff wrote:
> > On Balsa 2.3.28 (although it was the same on several previous  
> > versions) balsa seems to have latched on to a particular mailbox to  
> > open at startup, no matter which one I'm in when I close, and  
> > whetner I close by closing the window or using Ctl-q.  "balsa -i"  
> > has no effect, and "balsa -o folder" gives me a popup 'Couldn't open  
> > mailbox "folder"' and I've tried several of my folders with the same  
> > result (all mbox format).  I'm on Gentoo Linux, and I can't find any  
> > mention of problems on their forum or bugzilla.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot or figure out what's going on?
>
> I just pushed to git-master some changes that should help.   
> Specifically, the mailbox that you are working in when you exit Balsa  
> is the first opened when you restart it, and any others opened on  
> restart will not flash by, so you can start work immediately.
>
> If you don't have "View: Show Mailbox Tabs" checked, you might want  
> to check it from time to time.  You may find that you're opening some  
> mailboxes that haven't been used in a long time, which can only slow  
> Balsa's response at open time.
>
> Best,
>
> Peter
I'll give it a try this week and let you know how it goes.  I generally  
stick to the Gentoo packaged version, so it may take me some reading to  
get connected to the git version.

Thanks.

Jack